Delicious Recipes Food Cooking International Guide
Delicious Recipes With Your Secret Ingredients
By Frank Russelton
Delicious recipes are a way to create meals full of flavours,
better tasting and making them much more memorable. If your family
is asking you to create a variety of different meals, you do not
have to search for brand new recipes, just add seasonings, herbs
and other delicious flavourings, to increase the taste of your
meal. Let your family think you are using new recipes, when all
you are doing is making the meals much more delicious.
You may have a dinner party, and invited your friends for a night
in your home, to enjoy your cooking. You want the night to be
a memorable one, where your friends will tell their friends that
you are such a good cook. They may even ask for your recipes!
After all, you want everyone to enjoy their meals.
Cooking Like A Chef In An Expensive Restaurant
Now, you may wonder why chefs in expensive restaurants are paid
the way they are, when all they have to do is increase the flavour
in their meals and they are paid a fortune to cook you a meal.
You can save money by cooking your own meals at home and even
making your meals much more delicious than food in expensive restaurants.
It is so easy, to keep using the same recipes, but adding more
flavours with your own delicious ingredients, without even using
cook books!
Creating Your Own Recipes Without A Cook Book
Cook books are at the top of the list of books published. Why?
Eating is one of life’s great pleasures, so cook books have mass
appeal. Among all types of books, cook books are most likely to
succeed, from a publisher’s point of view. As an avid cook book
collector, I can tell you that many don’t necessarily stand up
to scrutiny in terms of producing delicious recipes.
I do have many treasured cook books on my bookshelf, while there
are others that fail my taste tests. Over the decades that I’ve
experimented with recipes, I’ve discovered that the truly delicious
recipes have several characteristics in common. This is what finally
led me to begin creating my own recipes – without a cook book.
Guidelines For Delicious Recipes
For all of you young, disappointed or just plain unenthusiastic
cooks, try going out on a limb and stir up a batch of creativity,
relying on the components of that elusive delicious recipe. Using
these guidelines, you’ll come to enjoy your own cooking, as will
your family and friends.
1. Seasoning is at the heart of any
recipe’s success. We’ve all tasted dishes that are bland, lacking
any distinguishable flavor, the ’zip’ that brings out the flavor
of the food.
If you’re not familiar with the use of seasonings, it’s an easy
matter to find charts online which tell you which herbs and spices
complement any food. There are also an array of books available,
as well as ’seasoning wheels’, much like a color wheel, which
match foods with seasonings.
2. Color in a dish is another important
visual component of delicious recipes. Think of it this way: a
bowl of oatmeal is a monochromatic, uninteresting food, visually.
Very few people, unless they just love the taste alone, can gather
up an enthusiastic response to a bowl of beige.
On the other hand, garnished with a few pieces of brightly colored
fruits, forms a picture that has far more appeal. Take a dish
of pasta, dressed with a dab of butter. Contrast this with the
same pasta, mixed with snow peas, finely diced Spanish onion,
yellow and red sweet bell peppers and garnished with freshly snipped
parsley. This combination creates a visual feast which diners
are eager to dig in to and eat with relish!
3. This brings us to texture, contrast
and balance. Any dish with just a single texture is less appealing
than one with a few different textures, which serve to ’surprise’
the palate, favorably.
While a plain baked potato is OK, a few snips of chives and bacon
bits adds interest, texture and flavor. A spoon of sour cream
on top adds the contrast of hot and cold. This is a simple, but
delicious recipe for the humble baked potato.
4. Aroma and fragrance can make all
the difference between a ho-hum dish and a delicious repast. For
example, fried rice, with scrambled bits of egg, diced onion,
water chestnuts and a bit of ham or shrimp covers the color, texture,
contrast and balance components.
The addition of a sprinkling of Chinese Five Spice elevates this
common dish to an uncommonly delicious recipe. Here’s another
example of fragrance enhancement: in Medieval times, cooks commonly
cooked a beef roast much as we do today.
The twist? A gravy, seasoned with cinnamon, made this dish fit
for a King! Yet another: those plain green beans, so often shunned
by kids, can be seasoned with either dill or thyme, giving off
an intriguing fragrance they can’t resist.
Incorporating these characteristics in to any plain Jane recipe
makes for interesting cooking and truly delicious recipes. Be
sure to record what you add! You may well have repeat requests
for your creations!
Making Your Own Delicious Recipes With Your Secret Ingredients
So now the secret is out! Now you know how to make your current
recipes into delicious recipes. You can experiment with the recommended
ingredients, in the above list, and see which ingredients, you
family loves the most. There is no need to start using brand new
recipes. Just use your current recipes and with trial and error,
you can try out the above ingredients to increase the taste and
flavour of your meals.
So if you are looking for ideas to make the Sunday roast much
more delicious and give it that twist, then adding gravy seasoned
with cinnamon will certainly improve the flavour. If you like
to add fried rice as part of the course, then including Chinese
Five Spices with the rice will certainly make a delicious dish.
Your family will be licking the plates and may even request second
and third servings.
Ingredients From Your Organic Garden
Apart from using a variety of ingredients, you may think about
using ingredients from your garden, to use organic herbs and vegetables.
If your ingredients are fresh from your organic garden, then all
the natural flavours will remain intact, helping to increase the
natural flavours in your meals. If you tried making a salad with
tomatoes from the food store and another salad with tomatoes from
your organic garden, you will certainly taste the difference.
You can surprise your family, wilt your ideas for delicious recipes.
About the Author:
Frank Russelton has written a number of articles on food and cooking
including Steak
House, Cooking
Recipes, New
Recipes, Cookbooks,
Cooking Food.
Keep a lookout for more articles on this website.
Did You Know?
What is the difference in cookware?
All cookware has one great similarity and
function in common: to cook your food. It is the conditions surrounding
the cooking that separate the bad cookware from the good. A lot
is based on personal preference.
A more experienced cook wants versatility in their cookware and
is looking for quality. Far too often the novice cook buys a set
of cookware only to find that the product is inferior. Do a simple
search on the internet for cookware that suits your cooking needs.
It is also important to make sure that the cookware is durable
and can last for longer than a few months.
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